The Asian Football Confederation ‘B’ Coaching certificate course organised by the All India Football Federation in association with the Tamilnadu Football Association and the Krishnagiri Football Association started at the Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur from 15th November, 2009 with Gabriel E Joseph, the Director of Coaching, AIFF and the Seniormost AFC Instructor of India concluded on 6th December, 2009.
At the closing function presided by the Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Football Association , R. Sadacharam, Dr. Ranganath the Principal of the Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur was the Chief Guest while Gabriel E Joseph, the Director of Coaching, AIFF was the Guest of honour. A total of 21 AFC ‘C’ qualified coaches that included 6 Ex-Internationals , a few Ex- National Players and certain working coaches from different parts of the Country participated. They were I.M. Vijayan, Naushad Moosa, Tejinder Kumar, Jo Paul Anchery, Md. Yusuf Ansari, Raman Vijayan (All Ex-Internationals) , Umer Mutawalli, P; Muralidharan, Bino George. S., Marcellus Aleckal John, Gangadhar.S., Agostinho Dias, Arindam Biswas, S.Sathyamurthi, P. Rajeev, M. Sankar, P. Krishna Raj, K. Govinda Raj, Shyam Sharan Shahi, Kundan Chandra and Agostine Antao. Karnataka Senior State coach and AFC Instructor R. Thyagaraj assisted the Course Instructor
The practical contents of the course included the teaching of advanced skills and tactics in the field while the theoretical contents of the course covered the topics on football and also the allied subjects such as sports medicine, nutrition, conditioning and laws of the game. For the purpose, the help of the experts Dr.Kannan Pugilendhi ,Dr.Gandhi and Ex-FIFA Referee and AIFF Referee’s Instructor K.Sankar were sought. With the help of Charles.G the multimedia technology and on line programmes in soccer were also shown to the participants. All the participants had to carryout three practical tests, two theoretical examinations, the dissertation topic presentations, actual match analysis of a match played between the under 19 players of the Tamilnadu State team preparing for under 19 National Championship and also in a separate match arranged the participants rehearsed the responsibilities of the coaching staff.
Towards the end of the subject course the Instructor Gabriel who had the experience of conducting about 40 AFC courses himself since 1997 at different sites of the Country and taking the responsibilities to train a good number of coaches also conducted re-test for P. Kunhikrishnan, Anthony J De Souza and S. Geevarghese who were kept earlier as the provisional pass candidates for the AFC ‘A’ certificate and Md Yusuf Ansari for the AFC Goalkeeping certificate.
Source: AIFF
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Tuesday 8 December 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.